Apollo 17 Transcript, 1972

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Tape 60/1
APOLLO 17 AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPrION
03 15 33 44 cc
Roger.
LMP
For our interp - If we can extrapolate from the
samples returned by other missions.
LMP
Amazing how far over - now the highlands to the
west of Procellarum are - still are bright, and the
contrast between fresh craters and the normal high­
land are very - are very obvious still in earthlight,
particularly along the zero phase point with respect
to the Earth.
Rima Gamma now is - is coming a lit­
tle bit closer to our oval track in the horseshoe
in the - larger and more western end of it; the
dark horseshoe is quite clear in this light. It's
a west - or northwest-pointing horseshoe, as is the
complete trend of that strange feature.
I think
Ron is going to have an excellent chance to study
these light-colored swirls within the mare and
other parts of the Moon.
We had some good views
of them and Mare Marginis and to the east of
Crisium - Mare Crisium, and he should - if there
is anything to be seen, he should be able to see
it for - during the next few days.
CC
Okeydoke.
03 15 35 50
CDR
Say, Gordo, something I just noticed here in work­
ing with the GDC what-have-you.
I - looked at the
Pc gage, and in the Pz - Pc position, there is a
continuous bias on it now of about, oh, 7 percent,
and if I switch to ALPHA, it goes to zero.
We never
saw that bias before this last burn.
CC
Roger, Gene.
03 15 36 35
LMP
Hey, Gordy, I'm looking right up the western edge
of the Procellarum mare where it contacts the ­
the - the high - western highlands of the Moon, and
we're just about to fly a little bit south of
Grimaldi.
That edge is very irregular.
There is
no obvious indications that it - there are large
basins that have been flooded by mare that have
formed that edge, but, again, the topographic dis­
tinction's possible in this lighter small.
Now I'm
starting to see that there are shadows in the craters.